Word: broad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Broad Jump--Crickard, Beveridge, E. A. Walker '32, Mitchell, Alvan Crocker...
...conclusion that the time is ripe for a comprehensive reexamination of the question. We are anxious that a very thorough consideration should be made of the economic aspects of the matter in order that these may be weighed with imperial defence considerations and a decision reached on broad grounds of national policy." (See Parliament's Week...
...hydroairplane has a broad V-shaped bottom which flattens toward the stern, a Sea Sled inverts the V, also flattens toward the stern. Both are built to slide along the surface rather t h a n t o p l o u g h t h r o u g h t h e w a t er. *A name derived from electric launch comp a n y, h o l d i n g c o m p a n y o f E l c o
...will be said that such a scheme would lead to specialization and narrowness. To a certain extent this objection is valid, though a wide variety of types, both social and intellectual, are certainly represented among the students who are following any broad field of knowledge. But it is difficult to see how active intellectual curiosity can be aroused among undergraduates, naturally tending toward diffusion of effort, without some specification, and consequently narrowing, of interest. Alan R. Sweezy...
...among all the Greek sponge-divers of Tarpon Springs last week, jovial young Demosthenes Kananis, who has been less than a year in the new world, was unquestioned hero. With covert glances the girls admired his broad shoulders and deep chest, remembering how, with a shout, he had slipped up from the deeps of Spring Bayou, holding high in his hand the dripping bronze cross...